Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Journal / Book Title
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Abstract
Aim: We extend the literature on the association of early onset of drug use and estimated risk for developing a substance use disorder (SUD) by investigating the risk that recent onset of alcohol and cannabis use confers for developing a substance use disorder at each chronological age of adolescence and young adulthood (12-21-years-old). Design: Using 2003 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health [Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), 2004. Overview of Findings from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Office of Applied Studies, NSDUH Series H-24, DHHS Publication No. SMA-04-3963, Rockville, MD], we computed separate risk indices for developing an alcohol and cannabis use disorder for recent (prior 2 years) alcohol and cannabis users, respectively, at each age from 12 to 21 years of age, and compared estimated risk to recent onsets users among respondents aged 22-26. Findings: The results indicated that the teenage years were strongly linked to an elevated risk status. The odds ratio (OR) of having a prior year alcohol use disorder (AUD) among recent onset alcohol users was significantly elevated for youth at ages 14, 16, 17 and 18 (range of ORs = 2.0-2.1) compared to the estimated risk for AUD among recent onset users aged 22-26. For cannabis, we obtained significantly elevated ORs for a cannabis use disorder (CUD) at each of teenage years (ages 12-18; range of ORs = 3.9-7.2), when compared to older recent onset users (aged 22-26). Conclusions: These data provide further epidemiological support that adolescence is a particularly vulnerable period for developing a SUD.
DOI
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.08.005
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Winters, Ken C. and Lee, Chih-Yuan, "Likelihood of Developing An Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder During Youth: Association with Recent Use and Age" (2008). Department of Family Science and Human Development Scholarship and Creative Works. 107.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/familysci-facpubs/107
Published Citation
Winters, K. C., & Lee, C. Y. (2008). Likelihood of developing an alcohol and cannabis use disorder during youth: association with recent use and age. Drug and alcohol dependence, 92(1-3), 239–247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.08.005